Backstage Murders: A French Detective Thriller
In the spotlight, everyone wears a mask. Her father just wears his better.
A fading star of French pop is found dead in the wings of a summer festival, high in the hilltop villages of Provence. To the press, it's a tragedy. To Lieutenant Roxane Baxter, of Marseille's Major Crimes unit, it's a crime scene - one that opens onto a world of dimmed fame, old debts, and people who have spent their whole lives performing a version of themselves.
In his workshop above the sea, Morgan Baxter takes an interest.
The former elite operative turned watchmaker no longer does what he once did. But the law still has its blind spots - and Morgan still has his own quiet way of balancing the books. Where Roxane needs evidence, her father needs only patience.
Since last winter, Roxane has looked at him differently. She has glimpsed what lies beneath his stillness, and she can't unsee it. Now, as their paths cross a second time, she must decide how much she wants to know - and how much she is willing to owe him.
Sun-drenched and quietly sinister, Backstage Murders is the second Watchmaker mystery - a Provence mystery for readers of Martin Walker's Bruno and Andrea Camilleri's Montalbano.
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